I've been using the ASAP lab request form downloaded from the "shared resources" section to send off with appropriate samples. I have it loaded as a Patient Form in OV and it works fine.

Never one to leave well enough alone, I thought I'd add an input field to the Clinical History section so that I could copy/paste the clinical history and then edit as required. This was the only change I made to the ODT file. Of course this meant changing the form's classification in OV from a Patient Form to a Patient Letter (because you can't edit a field in a form, can you?).

And it works fine........ Almost.

If I generate the form as a form, the clinic reference on the form is OV's Id field and it prints a number such as 45332. However just changing the same form from a form to a letter in OV, the Id field prints as -1. All other fields print perfectly and exactly the same whether the document is called a form or a letter.

Why does the id field print as -1?

Yuri.